Tiger Woods has walked off with two Masters using Scotty
Cameron putters.

AUGUSTA, Ga.  Tiger Woods likes to park his car in
the back and slip in the side door of Scotty Cameron's studio in San Marcos,
Calif. Nobody knows he's there except Cameron and his staff, but millions will
see the results of their work from week to week on the PGA Tour. "My business,
my forte, is making putters," Cameron says. "Without putters, the rest will
not happen." At The Masters this week, at least 29 players will use Cameron's
creations. Woods, Vijay Singh, Mark O'Meara, Larry Mize and Nick Faldo are past
champions and Cameron clients.

Augusta National's firm, fast and undulating greens are the
ultimate test of a golfer's putting skills and equipment, but Cameron believes
a putter that's fit to a golfer works on any green.

"The old-timers used to believe that you need less loft
on a putter you used on fast greens," he says. "But that's not true."

Cameron began making putters in his father's garage when
he was 8, and he loves to disprove what he calls "the book." He does this through
research and the tests he conducts on golfers in his studio.

Only one part of the studio is devoted to testing, but
it includes a video machine, lights, and a putting green that have helped him
make the putters Woods has used to win the Masters twice.

"Tiger came to me in the beginning and said, 'I'm not changing
a thing. Make me something that works,' " Cameron recalls.

His research has revealed much about putting. For example,
if a putter has too little loft it drives the ball into the ground and, as he
likes to say, "won't hunt the hole." If it has too much loft, it launches the
ball at impact and again won't hunt the hole.

Cameron thinks the ideal loft is 4 degrees, which he mills
into the face of the putters. In less than a day, he can test a player and build
a putter to his specifications.

"The things I know are not my theories, but the facts I'm
able to prove," Cameron says.